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Shot footballer: Gunman was after my gold
Doctors have postponed surgery to the right foot of national midfielder Keron Cummings today.Cummings, 27, was shot while returning home from a boat cruise lime around 2 am on Sunday at Bagatelle,...
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Welder shot dead in bed
After spending the Christmas weekend at their father’s Marabella home, two San Juan children awoke to harrowing sight of his bloodied body lying next to them.Police said Roger James, 45, was asleep on...
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Nidco replaces Charles as head
The board of the National Infrastructure Development Company (Nidco) has officially terminated the contract of its president Dr Carson Charles. Following a meeting with Nidco’s chairman, Herbert...
View ArticleGarcia: No need to panic over textbook change
Minister of Education Anthony Garcia says there is no need to panic as at least 90 per cent of textbooks will be available to all students for this school year.In an interview with the T&T Guardian...
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Changes soon for top brass in Police Service
Next year will see several senior officers of the T&T Police Service (TTPS) proceeding on pre-retirement leave and news faces emerging.As a result, president of the Police Social and Welfare...
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Rowley announces more belt tightening
Against the backdrop of current low energy prices and a dismal fiscal projection, Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley’s first address to the nation held a few glimmers of hope. In his almost 30 minute...
View ArticleAnalysis by Editor-in-Chief, Orin Gordon
The Prime Minister’s speech contained a clever mix of sobering analysis and bullish solutions. It was designed to sober up but not alarm.The portents hadn’t been promising. Finance Minister Colm Imbert...
View ArticleGrim assessment mixed with optimism
How we got hereThe 2015 budget was prepared on an anticipated oil price of $80 a barrel. The prices of our major exports have declined by as much as 70 per cent for crude oil, and 45 per cent for...
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Tim Kee: No shift on Savannah vending
Port-of-Spain Mayor Raymond Tim Kee says he will not be swayed and is prepared to make a jail before changing his decision on illegal vending along the strip at the Queen’s Park Savannah.He was...
View ArticleTeen, 17, held for chopping mom and her son, 13
A 17-year-old teenager remained in police custody last night for the chopping attack of a woman and her 13-year-old son at their Las Lomas #3 home on Sunday.Claudia Barcoo Campo, 41, and her son,...
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Wheelchair worries at San Fernando court
Lynette Alexis Henry has been attending the San Fernando Magistrates Court for over 18 months to say why her son, whose bail she stood, did not attend his court date.However, for Henry, 62, the trips...
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Central Bank: Ramdhanie’ quit on her own volition
Charlene Ramdhanie resigned “of her own volition.” So said communications manager Nicole Crooks who has been given the responsibility for the portfolio of strategic communications and international...
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TSTT averts licensing fiasco
The Telecommunications Services of Trinidad and Tobago’s (TSTT) avoided the embarrassing prospect of one of the country’s largest state companies being unlicensed, and therefore, technically, an...
View ArticleMan gunned down in Gasparillo
Valdeen Shears-Neptune A 17-month-old baby boy lost his father yesterday after gunmen ran into their Gasparillo home and shot the man five times. Dead is 27-year-old Anthony Kevin Bissessar of Altima...
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Mixed reactions to PM’s address
Coming public panic and desperation, devalued back pay dollars for public servants and fears of a return of the 1986 recession. These were some of the responses the T&T Guardian got from...
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Imbert defends private sector housing arrangement
GML ENTERPRISE DESKActing Prime Minister, Finance Minister Colm Imbert says that The Government wants to enter into an arrangement with the private sector to build houses “to help stimulate economic...
View ArticleKamla slams Rowley recovery plans
The Governemnt’s intention to split and utilise a portion of the multi-billion Heritage and Stabilsation Fund is a cause for concern to the Opposition. In a statement yesterday Opposition leader Kamla...
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Successful surgery for shot footballer
National midfielder Keron Cummings underwent a successful surgery yesterday at the Port-of-Spain General Hospital and doctors believe he should be able to return to the playing field in ten...
View ArticlePensioner killed and dumped in canefield
Less than 24 hours after he went missing, the body of Couva pensioner Ramsaran Maharaj was found yesterday dumped in an old canefield road in Phoenix Park, California, battered and sodomised with a...
View ArticleBlast at PowerGen knocks out power
An explosion rocked the PowerGen plant in Port-of-Spain yesterday, knocking out power across northern Trinidad, Chaguanas and environs. Employees at the plant were immediately evacuated. No one was...
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